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by sheepybloke 2y ago
My wife was diagnosed with ADHD when she was very young, and this rise of people believing they have ADHD is something we talk about a lot. We think most of this comes from social media and ADHD memes. Many of the memes touch on things that
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
I come from Michigan, and have found that the two fastest ways people identify me are 1) calling fizzy soft drinks "pop" and 2) that I add an "s", e.g. King Sooper's or Meijer's.
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
I agree! I find systems like OpenEmbedded's Yocto to be super helpful with learning how to build Linux.
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
Spain also has a hugely different energy market than the United States. Spain is around 5% of the size of the US, being closer to a state in our context. Different states have different climates, making them more aligned with different ener
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
This is true also for books. Adding things like sprayed edges, pretty hardcovers, and higher quality materials turns the items into more collectibles, things to show off to friends or decorate a home with instead of hide away.
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
I've been listening to the GI crew's podcast for a long time. After the last big round of layoffs, I started listening to MinnMax, which was started by a group of the people who got laid off. This and so many other outlets getting
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
One book that was helpful for me after my dad died was Garson Kieler's book "Good Poems for Hard Times" [1]. It's a beautiful anthology of poems that helps with working through life, loss, and grief. Each time I open it,
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by sheepybloke 2y ago
Second this book! I read this at the behest of my wife after my dad died of cancer, and was really impactful for me.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
My university did that switch over in '18. The course originally taught MIPS but shifted to RISC-V, partially though because the book that they taught from was updated from MIPS to RISC-V. I really appreciated the switch, especially as
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
The bigger question for me is if it's easy to uses or add the accelerator memory to your application. For something like a virtual assistant or something with some basic image recognition, it can be really confusing about how to take a
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
You end up spending that much if you live in a winter climate. Salt is really bad for cars, so you end up washing a time or two a month generally.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
The part that's missing is the "Art". That's one of the huge pieces of the Bauhaus really pushed. At the time, you could get "cheap and ugly" or you could get "expensive and beautiful". There wasn&#x2
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Honestly, the biggest thing that concerns me with using Rust for embedded is the size of the crates. We were looking to do some packages for a product, and the Rust packages were huge compared to the C++ ones. Granted, this was mostly becau
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
This is literally what I'm facing right now. We were hoping to stay in our place for one more year, but the company is raising our rent by 10% while at the same time are running a special for a free month's rent. Every place I&#x2
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Loft Orbital to Provide Space Infrastructure for Wildfire Detection xPrize(loftorbital.com)
2 points by sheepybloke 3y ago|1 comments
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Loft Orbital is providing developers a satellite platform to develop and deploy their wildfire detection applications to help teams competing for the Wildfire Detection XPRIZE. This allows any developer to deploy their code on a satellite a
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Just for context, here's SDA's Open Standard on how they expect to do connections over Optical Links. I assume the starlink terminals work in a similar manner: https://www.sda.mil/wp-content/uploads/2023&
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Loft Orbital Solutions | Various Positions | San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO; Toulouse, FR | ONSITE Loft Orbital builds "shareable" satellites, providing a fast & simple path to orbit for organizations that require access to spa
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
One thing this really drives is competition in the industry as well. I've been doing some work in the industry and there is a lot work that's needed just to handle the data properly. Basically, Space Force is stuck in bed with the
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
They've already majorly affected what sort of plants get built. For example, most of the new build plants are natural gas based and designed to be started quickly to supplement the current production of power.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
You get a larger market share of the total energy consumption/payments to be during the day. E.g. because solar is cheaper, I shift my usage so that all of my energy costs are during the day, and if a majority of people do that, there
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Maybe I'm too stuck in my own sector, but I haven't seen an Altera FPGA in the wild in forever. All the Altera FPGA's I've seen are over 10 years old, and anything newer is a Xilinx FPGA. Granted, my field has moved pure
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
My biggest issue is that there’s not really competition for internet providers in many locations. I’ve only had Comcast not because they are good, but because they are the only provider that has the speeds I want. For example, in one area C
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
One of the big things I saw when a company I worked at did layoffs was that more people left voluntarily than were fired, especially a lot of the people I saw as the best and brightest. Heck, it's why I left. To me, that's the big
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
One thing to look at here is Small Business Innovation Research grants. I know a lot of companies who exist just to do SBIRs and trying to productize other SBIRs.SBIRs are also a lot of fun, tend to be more research focused, and often you c
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Loft Orbital Solutions | Various Positions | San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO; Toulouse, FR | ONSITE Loft Orbital builds “shareable” satellites, providing a fast & simple path to orbit for organizations that require access to space. Powere
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
> That's quite unlike Bob's Burgers, for example, where they're constantly pointing out that they can't even pay rent on time and there's a constant looming anxiety about finances To your point, like Fraiser, it&
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
We did some molding and extrusion at a startup I worked at. A couple of things from our experience: - Need to be incredibly explicit. Call out tolerances, how you need it to be created, expectations, everything you can think of. They'l
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I agree! What people don't realize are the lucrative parts of a govt contract is the follow on contracts to support. You don't make money on the initial design of a plane, you make money on adding weapons and fixing bugs for the n
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Being strongly typed also helps! One other interesting thing is including the tests directly in the file you're writing in. To me, that will be incredibly helpful when doing certification and verification.

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